Short Stack Sign To UNFD & Release First New Music Since 2015

Aussie pop punk trio Short Stack have stamped their comeback with the announcement that they've signed to UNFD and released their first new music since 2015. 

With their headline tour of the country rescheduled for this April, the Budgewoi-founded group have released new single, Burn You Down; check out the music video below. 

"I've always admired Short Stack for their ability to build such a loyal and enthusiastic fanbase, and for how unapologetic they were in doing so. That’s always been the ethos of UNFD as a label and our bands, to care about the music and the fans first and approval last," UNFD General Manager Luke Logemann said.

"I saw them play Festival Hall over ten years ago, and I remember being overwhelmed by how passionately the fans sang every word back at them. They wrote huge bangers that you could never get out of your head, even if some people didn’t want to admit it.

"The best thing is, all of that still rings true – they still have crazy fans, they still sell out venues and they still write huge bangers. Based on how good the new material is, I reckon they'll be doing this long into the future as well."

Short Stack will launch the single this Thursday at Crowbar in Sydney.

"Everything about how we approached this was different... where we used to find a lot of pressure to deliver something specific, we approached this with the thought that this is our chance to be the band we've always wanted to be," frontman Shaun Diviney said of the band's comeback.

He continued, "I think a lot of bands at the time when we first broke out were put together by labels and a lot of people threw us in that basket, but we were just a bunch of dudes that went to high school together and played [blink 182] covers and it snowballed from there.

"To go back to our roots now and really just strip things back and play together in a room was really important to us.

"The reason we broke up was that it just wasn’t fun... it’s been a fair chunk of time now, so coming back finds us in a different stage of life with a different idea about what we want out of music.

"At one point we were one of the biggest bands in the country, you know we’ve done so many things that you can’t really top, so our goal is really just to do something that we believe in and have fun doing it."

For more details on this week's launch show and April headline tour dates, check out theGuide.